On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote: > On 12/13/2013 16:35, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> I note the absence of PAE for CentOS. >> I've read that PAE can be important. > > Only if you're trying to address more than 4 GB of RAM on a 32-bit > system. Even then, most software doesn't take advantage of it. > > PAE is an old hack Intel invented in the mid 90's to ease the transition > to 64-bit computing. Now that 64-bit is really, finally here, it's time > to start forgetting that PAE ever existed. I think PAE is a required default in CentOS6 instead of an option. CentOS5 had separate kernel versions. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com